Cisco Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Cisco
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 15 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 10 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.90% 4.19% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 12.99% 12.96% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - £435 £416
25th Percentile £413 £459 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +25.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £447
90th Percentile - £644 £449
South East median daily rate £525 £505 £450
% change year-on-year +3.96% +12.22% -8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £47.95 £62.00
% change year-on-year +86.93% -22.67% +22.12%

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 77 54 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 53.10% 32.34% 46.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 70
10th Percentile £162 £160 £175
25th Percentile £222 £344 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.73% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £475 £500 £600
90th Percentile £585 £645 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £43.85 £17.95 £18.08
25th Percentile £71.00 £20.88 £26.08
Median hourly rate £89.63 £27.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +231.96% -16.41% +90.00%
75th Percentile - £46.31 £32.32
90th Percentile - £74.78 £37.76
South East median hourly rate £18.87 £57.35 £51.96
% change year-on-year -67.10% +10.37% +159.80%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Oxfordshire

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Oxfordshire

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford -1 5 £600 +11.63% 2
Kidlington +1 2 £425 -32.00% 2
Abingdon - 1 - -
Cisco
South East

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) VPN
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (50.00%) Wireless
3 4 (40.00%) DHCP
3 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 3 (30.00%) Network Security
5 1 (10.00%) Internet
5 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
5 1 (10.00%) LAN
5 1 (10.00%) MPLS
5 1 (10.00%) NAS
5 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
5 1 (10.00%) SAN
5 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (10.00%) Skype
5 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
5 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
5 2 (20.00%) Legal
6 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Service Support Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (50.00%) ITIL
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) ITSM
2 4 (40.00%) Service Management
2 4 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (10.00%) Threat Management
4 1 (10.00%) Ticket Management
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (10.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) CheckPoint
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Sophos
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) F5
5 1 (10.00%) VMware